Apparatus for heating buildings



April 26, 1949. H. A. RATCLIFF 2,468,234

I APPARATUS FOR HEATING BUILDINGS Filed July 10, 1945 Allorney PatentedApr. 26, 1949 APPARATUS FOR HEATING BUILDINGS Harry Arthur Ratcliff,Surbiton Hill, England Application July 10, 1945, Serial No. 604,208 InGreat Britain July 3, 1944 1 Claim.

This invention relates to apparatus for heating single story buildingsof the kind in which a gas or oil burner is placed in a heating chamber,the hot gases from which pass through pipes in the building and pass outof a hood or like device high up in the building in relation to theheating chamber.

In such apparatus as heretofore constructed the objection has obtainedthat unpleasant smell is caused in the building due to water and othercondensed liquids finding its way into the heating chamber.

The object of the present invention is to provide apparatus for heatingbuildings having a heating chamber from which hot gases pass throughpipes inside the building and out of the pipes into the building througha hood-like device situated high up inside the building, the combinationwith the pipes of check means located inside the pipes close to theheating chamber, said check means preventing liquids contained in saidpipes from passing into said heat ing chamber.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theimproved combination and arrangements of parts set out in the embodimentwhich will now be described in relation to the accompanying drawings,the novel features being recited in the claim which follows:

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention in adiagrammatic manner:

Fig. 1 shows in elevation, partly in section, the left hand part of oneembodiment of the invention,

Figs. 2 and 3 are views in section of details to larger scale.

The heating apparatus illustrated is particularly suitable for singlestory buildings, particularly those having relatively large and highchambers and adapted for places of assembly such as churches.

Referring to these drawings the heating element I is a gas ring at thebottom of a heating chamber 2 and pipes 3 lead from the top to aradiator 4. The heating chamber is near the side wall [3 of thebuilding.

Another heating element and chamber on the opposite side connect to thisradiator 4.

Pipes 5 pass from this radiator to a hood 9 with a closed top 8 and aclosed bottom II]. This hood is placed inside the building near the apexof the roof I4.

The pipe 3 nearest to the chamber 2, enclosing a gas or oil stove, hasprojecting from the bottom a stop plate 1 which extends to near thecenter of the pipe and traps any condensed liquid running down the pipeand prevents it from reaching the heating chamber.

The hood 9 has holes ll near the bottom which allow heated air to passinto the building and the topmost pipe 5 has holes l2 in it just abovethe bottom plate in of the hood.

Any liquid which condenses in the hood will return through the holes IDto the pipe 5 and if it is not re-evaporated before it reaches the plateI it will be trapped there and re-evaporated because the plate I willremain hot.

A similar apparatus is used when the heating element burns oil.

I claim:

Apparatus for heating single story buildings, comprising a heatingchamber having a fluid fuel burner adapted to heat air in said chamber,a feed pipe leading from a hot air outlet of the chamber at an upwardinclination to a radiator, a plate rising from the bottom of the incinedfeed pipe to a height substantially one half the diameter of said pipeto stop flow of liquid into said heating chamber, said stop plate beingdisposed close to said chamber in a zone wherein the temperature is suchas to rapidly evaporate the liquid and prevent overflow of said stopplate, and a pipe rising from said radiator and having its upper endopen, a hood mounted near the roof of the building and on the top ofsaid riser, said hood having a top wall spaced above the open top end ofsaid riser and a bottom wall contacting with and surrounding said riserbelow its top end, said hood having a side wall surrounding and spacedfrom the riser and provided with a plurality of air outlet openings nearthe bottom, said riser having gas discharge and condensed fluidreceiving openings immediately above the bottom wall of said hood.

HARRY ARTHUR RATCLIFF.

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